Jodie Foster

Well, a lot of the ladies that I learned French from, they all spoke a little bit like this.

And I guess I imitated them when I was a kid.

So I have quite a confident way about me in English.

And in French, I'm just a total vulnerable person.

Very unsure of myself.

And I wouldn't say screechy, but definitely a little bit higher voiced.

Yeah.

Yeah, I have a totally different personality.

I have the personality of somebody who's eternally frustrated that they can't communicate themselves well enough.

Oh, nice.

Yes, and drinking red wine.

Yeah.

I'm playing an expatriate in the movie.

So there's something about that.

You know, people that leave everything behind and they say my whole identity, everything that I am, my my past, my family, everything about me that I've always considered is me.

I'm going to leave that behind.

I'm going to break out and be a brand new person.

And in some way, very often, expatriates choose some fantasy version of what it would be like to be a French person.

You know, suddenly they're wearing a beret and their house is right on one of those lovely parks and they start telling you they're on vacation and that they can't do things.

But I thought that was interesting, an interesting thing to explore.